Legal texts, such as regulations and legislation, are playing an increasingly important role in
requirements engineering and system development. Monitoring systems for requirements …

Claims, disputes, and litigations are major legal issues in construction projects, which often
result in cost overruns, delays, and adverse working relationships among the contracting …

Bad requirements quality can cause expensive consequences during the software
development lifecycle, especially if iterations are long and feedback comes late. We aim at a …

As part of the growing interest in natural language processing for requirements engineering
(RE), RE researchers, computational linguists, and industry practitioners met at the First …

Extracting conceptual models from natural language requirements can help identify
dependencies, redundancies, and conflicts between requirements via a holistic and easy-to …

Natural language (NL) is still the predominant notation that practitioners use to represent
software requirements. Albeit easy to read, NL does not readily highlight key concepts and …

During requirements elicitation, different stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and skills
need to effectively communicate to reach a shared understanding of the problem at hand …

Context. Defects such as ambiguity and incompleteness are pervasive in software
requirements, often due to the limited time that practitioners devote to writing good …

Interviews are the most common and effective means to perform requirements elicitation and
support knowledge transfer between a customer and a requirements analyst. Ambiguity in …

Requirements Engineering is one of the most vital activities in the entire Software
Development Life Cycle. The success of the software is largely dependent on how well the …